Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.